Price of Paradise and The Value of Hawai'i debate

Monday, Feb. 28, 3:00-4:30 pmArt Auditorium, UH Mānoa campusFree and open to the public

Join us for a lively and challenging debate and comparison of the influential The Price of Paradise publications (1992, 1993) and the more recent The Value of Hawai‘i (2010), two essay projects that offer a range of timely and sobering analysis on issues ranging from the economy to the environment, education to cultural preservation, the government, social services, and more.

What motivated each publication, and what has changed? What do we value about our home, and what prices have we all paid/are willing to pay to continue to live here? Speakers will comment generally on the state and State of Hawai‘i as they see it at the moment, and in particular, what they think the future holds, or should hold, for this to be a better place.

Co-sponsored by Civil Beat, The Center for Biographical Research, and Hawai‘i Council for the Humanities.

Speaker bios:

David Callies is the Kudo Professor of Law at William S. Richardson Law School, University of Hawai‘i. He is national co-editor (with Tarlock), of the Land Use and Environmental Law Review. The second edition of his Hawai‘i land use book, Regulating Paradise: Land Use Controls in Hawaiʻi, was published in 2010 by the University of Hawai‘i Press. He was awarded a University of Hawai‘i Regents Medal for Excellence in Teaching in 2009.

Susan M. Chandler is the Director of the College of Social Sciences Public Policy Center and a Professor of Public Administration at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She teaches in the areas of public policy, network governance, community and organi­zational change, and policy implementation. From 1995 to 2002 she served in Governor Benjamin J. Cayetano’s administration as the Director of Human Services. She recently completed a book with Richard Pratt, Backstage in the Bureaucracy: Politics and Public Services (U of Hawai‘i P, 2010).

Deane Neubauer is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He also currently serves as Senior Consultant to the International Forum for Education 2020 Program of the East-West Center, and as Senior Research Fellow for the Globalization Research Center, UHM. His research focus is on policy and globalization, with particular interests in health and educational policy.

Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwo‘ole Osorio, PhD, is Professor of Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, a historian of the Hawaiian Kingdom, and a practicing musician and composer. He has been an advo­cate for the restoration of Hawai‘i’s political independence, and writes about the sovereignty movement in Hawai‘i. He and his wife Mary live in Pālolo, and have sent all of their children to public schools and Kamehameha High School.

Randall Roth has been a member of the faculty at three law schools and was named Professor of the Year at all three. In 2000 the Honolulu Star-Bulletin included Roth on its list of "100 Individuals Who Made a Difference in Hawai'i during the 20th century" and in 2005 the City of Honolulu's Centennial Commission put Roth on its list of "100 Who Made Lasting Contributions During Honolulu's First 100 Years." In 2009 Morehouse College presented Roth with the Gandhi, King, Ikeda award for pursuit of social justice by non-violent means.

For brief remarks by the speakers on changes to Hawai‘i over the past 18 years, go to the following link on Civil Beat.